WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday named job creation as his top priority in 2010, seeking to revive America’s belief in hiscrusade for change after a first year in office haunted by economic decay.
In his debut State of the Union Address, Obama admitted his White House had suffered political setbacks — some deserved — [...]
COLOMBO, Jan 27 – Sri Lanka’s president took a strong lead in early returns on Wednesday, but his main challenger said he feared arrest after troops surrounded the hotel where he and other opposition leaders were staying.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa led with 1.51 million votes against 983,022 for his former army commander, General Sarath Fonseka, with [...]
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, spoke publicly for the first time about the botched Christmas Day airliner bombing, praising the attempt — but not explicitly taking responsibility for it — in an audiotape broadcast Sunday that was aimed personally at President Obama.
Mr. bin Laden said that the bombing attempt was [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The only sound inside Haiti’s National Palace comes from the crunch underneath one’s soles. Its ornate reception rooms are strewn with rubble. The stench of decaying bodies, a week and a half after the earthquake,
Haitians lined up for food being distributed Friday outside the National Palace in Port-au-Prince. The badly damaged building [...]
The Dow Jones closed down 2%, its worst fall since October, while Japan’s Nikkei was down early on Friday.
Shares in major US banks Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Bank of America all fell.
Mr Obama – who said he was “ready for a fight” with banks – plans to limit the size of banks and impose [...]
WASHINGTON: A day after completing a year in White House, US President Barack Obama feels that he has neglected his direct connect with theAmerican people who he says are “angry and frustrated”.
As he absorbed a stinging blow from the voters, Obama admitted that his getting embroiled in tackling a flurry of crises had weakened his [...]
Residents of Nigeria’s city of Jos say attacks are continuing for a fourth day in parts of the state previously unaffected despite the imposition of a 24-hour curfew and the deployment of soldiers.
Incidents of violence are still being reported in the volatile city amid reports that clashes between gangs of Muslim Hausas and mostly Christian [...]
As President Obama completes his first year in office, security experts give him high marks for sticking to American values and trying to win the hearts of Muslims while taking steps to avert terrorist attacks. But they also say the U.S. must not wait to fix a weakness until after it is exposed by an [...]
SYDNEY — Prince William touched down in Australia for the first time in 27 years Tuesday for a tour that will take in a poor inner-city Aboriginal community and towns devastated by wildfires.
The second-in-line to the throne walked down the steps of a Royal New Zealand Air Force plane to meet New South Wales Governor [...]
Foreign ministers from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran say their three countries will increase cooperation on regional issues in the coming months. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki signed a joint declaration Saturday after meeting in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
The foreign ministers from Pakistan, [...]
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